With its 1.0 GA announcement this week, Zimbra Desktop is officially launched as an open source, full featured desktop mail client. I’d like to use this occasion to reflect back at an interesting approach that the Zimbra engineering team took in developing this product. Zimbra Desktop behaves like a classic desktop application. It installs and […]
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Zimbra Mobile for iPhone
Now that the iPhone 2.0 software update is here, here’s a sneak peek of what Zimbra Mobile for iPhone looks like. First, if you are new to Zimbra Mobile it’s part of Zimbra Collaboration Suite Network Edition and provides over-the-air synchronization of emails, appointments and contacts between a user mailbox and their mobile device. “Push” […]
Why we switched to Jetty
One of the most important traits of Web 2.0 applications is low user-perceived latency in UI update, which usually requires low latency event notification from server to client. However due to the limitations of the HTTP protocol, a server cannot initiate communication with a client as events occur. (more…)